Dominican Revolutionary Party

The Dominican Revolutionary Party (PRD) is a conservative-liberal political party in the Dominican Republic that was founded by Juan Bosch on 21 January 1939. The party was founded by several Dominican exiles in Havana, Cuba, and it was established in the republic in 1961. The party was the first Dominican party based on populist and democratic leftist principles and an organization based on mass membership. In 1973, Bosch left the party to form the left-wing Dominican Liberation Party, and the PRD became involved with corruption, allowed for right-wing paramilitary groups to launch raids into Haiti, and became an increasingly conservative party as it came to support transnational capital over the poor majority. The party also supported the Iraq War.